Guangdong: emergency rescue for rainstorm and waterlogging in many places

e20054ba-0f08-431d-8f0b-981f9b1264d2 e24260fa-f32e-4fcb-ab2d-1dbd6a96f460May 31 solstice On June 1, affected by a strong thunderstorm cloud, there was a heavy rain in Heyuan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai and other places in Guangdong, causing severe waterlogging in many places and flooding of roads, houses, vehicles and people trapped.Fire and rescue teams were sent out to rescue the victims.

 

Heyuan: a number of houses flooded and rescued more than trapped children

 

At 5:37 a.m. on May 31, houses near a kindergarten in Guzhu Town, Heyuan, were flooded and people were trapped.After firefighters arrived at the scene, they found that due to heavy rainfall and low-lying terrain, the whole road was filled with water, with the deepest water nearly 1 meter.Fire and rescue personnel immediately carry life vests and other equipment, wading on foot to search for the trapped people, in a number of civilian houses found trapped people, fire and rescue personnel through relay, the first children, the elderly, women orderly evacuated to the safety area.After nearly two hours of intense rescue, the trapped 18 people were successfully rescued to safety.At 7:22, Heyuan High-tech Zone Nijin Village, two houses were flooded, the low-lying water level in front of the building rose, the deepest water is about 0.5 meters, the water level is still rising, trapped personnel are all waiting for rescue in the house.Firefighters immediately put on life jackets and waded to the homes of the trapped people on foot, carrying rescue equipment. They successfully transferred 7 trapped people, including 2 children, from two residential buildings in two separate times.

Zhuhai: 101 trapped people were rescued and evacuated within 11 hours

 

At 4:52 a.m. on June 1, iron shed near Shangchong neighborhood committee in Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai flooded, trapping many people. Local firefighters rushed to the scene to deal with the flooding.However, due to heavy rainfall and the low terrain of the affected area, the depth of the flood is more than 1 meter, fire trucks can not pass near the Shangchong neighborhood committee.Fire and rescue personnel immediately carried water rescue equipment, wading through waist-deep flood water on foot 1.5 kilometers to the location of the trapped people, house by house search for the trapped people, and through relay, boat transfer, took 3 hours to transfer more than 20 trapped people to safety.At 6 o ‘clock in the morning, the fire department received the alarm that people were trapped in the old village of Xingqiao Street, Qianshan, Xiangzhou District, including several elderly people with mobility difficulties and one wounded person with leg disease.After contacting the power supply department to deal with the power cut in the area, the fire and rescue workers waded through water and walked to carry out comprehensive and meticulous search and rescue in the area, and rescued more than 10 people trapped in different rooms.After about 3 hours of rescue, at 9 am, rescue workers using rubber boats, safety ropes, life jackets and other rescue equipment will be trapped people all transferred to safety.

 

According to statistics, from 0:00 to 11:00 on June 1st, the fire and rescue teams of Zhuhai dealt with 14 flood rescue alerts and rescued and evacuated 101 trapped people.

 


Post time: Jun-04-2021